ricksfolly
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In an ideal world, nuclear stockpiles could be eliminated. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world. Although there is likely room for reducing nuclear stockpiles, elimination of such stockpiles would merely create a powerful incentive/temptation for some state or states to cheat. That situation would heighten the risk of aggression rather than reduce the risk of conflict.
That may have been true in the fifties and sixties but not today. All we have to fear now is attacks by small groups of Arab terrorists with shoe, printer, and underwear bombs, definitely not nuclear threats by other nations...
Nothing since the Cuban crisis back in the early sixties.
ricksfolly